Hi Graham,
Although it won't be there this week, there is a better user control
of the UI on its way. You can read a summary at http://
www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/07/12/ll-planning-ui-revamp/ and in
the comments there's a link to the actual wiki page(s) which are a
harder read.
This should make things like skinning your client (setting easier to
read colours for menus etc.) much easier to achieve. I have to agree
though. The white on a grey background looks and feels like someone
read a book on building accessible UIs and reversed the rules, or
that someone with a very specific visual disturbance designed it.
Sadly there's no timeline on these, but the changes are meant to be
coming.
El.
On 19 Sep 2007, at 13:35, Lewis, Graham wrote:
> As a (pretty much) blind user, I hate Flash and Java interfaces to
> the web. Not becuase Flash and Java are any less accessible in
> theory but because applications built in them rarely are.
>> I am looking forward to seeing the SL client interface becoming
> more accessible not less. At the moment there is no good reason
> for the subtle colour distinctions between text and foreground in
> the menu system but it is pretty much inaccessible to me.
>> So keep it simple guys!
>> Graham Lewis
> From: educators-bounces at lists.secondlife.com on behalf of Wietse
> van Bruggen
> Sent: Wed 19/09/2007 09:35
> To: SL Educators
> Subject: RE: [SLED] HTML won't ruin your second life
>> I don't want to speak for other people, but I think the argument
> that is
> being made here by Jeremy (please correct me if I am totally
> wrong ;-) )
> is that with adding the option of using Flash in HTML within Second
> Life
> you can potentially create problems for universal access to content.
> Even though Second Life is not always working very well for a lot of
> people, at least it gives us one system that works and behaves the
> same
> for everybody. With adding Flash, you are creating more external
> dependencies that could potentially harm the universal aspect of
> Second
> Life because then it would rely more on systems outside of the Second
> Life programs control. Even though the majority of users probably have
> Flash installed, the versions they use and the browser that they
> use to
> view Flash content can widely vary. Some Flash content requires a
> different version, and some versions behave differently in different
> browsers. Versions of Flash for different operating systems don't come
> out at the same time (linex vs windows for example). Flash content can
> also ask for quite some resources from the CPU or memory; some people
> struggle right now to get a Second Life performance without any of
> that.
>> These are just some of the things that I can come up with that could
> 'ruin' (I dislike that word though - its so negative) a Second Life
> experience. It's not just a bam-lets-stick-it-up-in-there situation;
> there are more things that should be taken into consideration.
>> Gr,
> Wietse van Bruggen
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: educators-bounces at lists.secondlife.com> [mailto:educators-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] Namens Nik Peachey
> Verzonden: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:54 AM
> Aan: SL Educators
> Onderwerp: Re: [SLED] HTML won't ruin your second life
>> Hi Jeremy,
>> You said;
> "Flash only rarely is accessible to people you send it to, not just
> accessible in the classic sense of being able to be seen, but also in
> the sense of usually it does not provide adequate data to people with
> impairments of any sort. It is like watching cartoons on tv. tv is
> not a universal media, that is why we have subtitles and translation
> systems. flash is great for education so long as everyone is used
> to flash or capable of using flash on their system."
>> Could you not take out the word Flash and put in SL and the text would
> read pretty much just as accurately?
>> This seems like a bizarre line of argument. These problems you are
> pointing out are much easier to get round with Flash than they are
> with
> SL.
>> Best
>> Nik
>> Nik Peachey | Learning Technology Consultant, Trainer, Content
> Designer
>http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/>> Email: nikpeachey at mac.com>>>>> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
> To: gavin.dudeney at theconsultants-e.com; SL Educators
> <educators at lists.secondlife.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 September, 2007 12:18:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLED] HTML won't ruin your second life
>> Flash only rarely is accessible to people you send it to, not just
> accessible in the classic sense of being able to be seen, but also in
> the sense of usually it does not provide adequate data to people with
> impairments of any sort. It is like watching cartoons on tv. tv is
> not a universal media, that is why we have subtitles and translation
> systems. flash is great for education so long as everyone is used
> to flash or capable of using flash on their system.
>> other things with flash is that it is proprietary and changes often
> enough that people have issues keeping up with upgrades. you can use
> shockwave/flash to bypass some system security and capture data on the
> web.
>> i'm not a big fan of flash..
> but then i was a pretty ok fan of dhtml, which does much of the same
> thing... well dhtml minus activex.
>> any technology you choose to pursue includes and excludes, audience is
> important in determining use.
>http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/01/> the_truth_about_flash_in_email.html is a nice flash story.
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Gavin Dudeney wrote:
>> > Jeremy,
> >
> > "as for the flash.... I have nothing good to say about flash ever,
> > except that it is good for some games. my main problem with
> flash...
> > accessibility, but there are other issues."
> >
> > Could you elaborate, please - both on the accessibility issue,
> and the
>> > others, too?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> >
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